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Thousands of Christmas-mad Brits dressed up as Santa race 5K and down pints to celebrate
Christmas-mad Brits took to the streets of Liverpool dressed as Santa Claus for the biggest Saint Nick-themed run in the UK.Revellers could be seen enjoying themselves as they celebrated the yearly event, with boozy Father Christmases downing pints after they finished.The 5k run – which once bagged the Guinness World Record for biggest Santa gathering – raised cash for the city's Alder Hey Children's Hospital, reports the Liverpool Echo.Former Liverpool FC star Jamie Carragher, who spent the first six weeks of his life in the hospital’s neonatal ward, officially started the celebrations.He was joined by a four-year-old patient called Betty, who spent 13 months with the Liverpudlian medics at Alder Hey after being born at just 23
